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Paul Rendell started his venture into journalism with a little known typewritten newsletter in 1986. Very few copies now exist of The Dartmoor Wally News which was a precursor of what has now become essential Dartmoor reading. The Dartmoor Wally News ran to twelve issues and finally ended in August 1989. It was to be a two year wait until a sample issue of The Dartmoor Newsletter appeared in April 1991.The accompanying letter read, “It has been suggested that a Dartmoor Newsletter is needed to keep walkers informed of activities that are taking place on the moor”. Paul ends with, “The newsletter will contain up to two double sided A4 sheets, according to information available. It will be published every two months and a year’s subscription will cost £3 including postage. . . If there is no interest your money will be refunded in full.”
Purchase the latest issue (past copies and subscriptions) as well as other books on Dartmoor at the Dartmoor News Online Shop
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“And often have I seen the moor so chequered and broken with light and shade, that it required no stretch of the imagination to convert many a weather-beaten tor into the towers and ruined walls of a feudal castle. Nay, even human forms, gigantic in their dimensions, sometimes seemed to start wildly ...”
Also on Our DartmoorDirection Post, North-East Corner Of Beacon Lane — A direction post marking the crossroads at Cherrycombehead, guiding travellers across the moorland landscape.
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